Butch Heterosexuality in Black Caribbean Womanhood: Exploring Gender Performance and Sexuality

This critical text proposes new ways of conceptualizing Black womanhood by challenging plantation patriarchal culture, its binary constructions, and methods of Black heterosexual coupling.

Marsha Myrie Obi, PhD, is a Caribbean researcher, Educational Developer of Anti-Oppressive and Inclusive Pedagogies, and adjunct professor of Political Science at University of Guelph, Ontario. Her research explores the intersections of womanism, Black Studies, philosophy as praxis and intellectual history. She is the master advocate with the survivor-led group, Operation Safe Space, Barbados.